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Re: RME Firewire 800 and Guitar Amp Sim
OK. Wow.
Downloaded the trial version of Amplitube Jimi Hendrix, and it sounds GREAT. Better by a longshot than any other guitar amp VST I've tried so far. But as I feared, it's pretty heavy on the CPU. In my core Bidule setup, it gives me a 23-25% increase in CPU usage on my (admittedly slow)
1.5GHZ 2MB single-cpu laptop. That puts me into crackleland :(
I'll be very interested in seeing if I can squeeze it in when my new lappy arrives (dual core 2.0ghz w/ 4MB). This alone is reason enough to try out Bidule's multi CPU support, too.
Also downloaded Voxengo Boogex. Also wow. Sounds very good, especially the clean sounds. I don't like it's amp overdrive as much, but again - I have stompers to fix that. It only adds 6-7% to my CPU, which is amazing. And it's free. From reading a thread at Voxengo, the author says I can turn down the "tone, drive and phase" knobs and basically eliminate Boogex's preamp - so I *could* use this thing as a power/speaker modeler to round things off. I haven't tried that yet cause I've been too enamored with these two toys! :)
You gents have me considering going straight into the laptop with my dry guitar signal (again). When this new laptop arrives (this week!!) I'm going to see if I can pull it off, and still use my growing Bidule setup, without any crackles.
Thanks for the suggestions!
